Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller Asked to explain why a few people truly excel, most people offer one of two answers. The first is hard work. Yet we all know plenty of hard workers who have been doing the same job for years or decades without becoming great. The other possibility is that the elite possess an innate talent for excelling in their field. We assume that Mozart was born with an astounding gift for music, and Warren Buffett carries a gene for brilliant investing. The trouble is, scientific evidence doesn't support the notion that specific natural talents make great performers.
Roommates Kelly and Chloe are enjoying their lives and their downtown Detroit loft just fine. Kelly is a Victoria's Secret catalog model. Chloe is an escort, until she decides to ditch her varied clientele in favor of a steady gig as girlfriend to eighty-four-year-old retired lawyer Tony Paradiso, a.k.a. Mr. Paradise.
In Mind Dynamics, you will learn: * How to make your greatest wishes come true by learning the secret of communicating with your subconscious mind. * How to unleash exceptional creativity and brainstorming skills among you and your colleagues. * How to tap the "inner information superhighway" of your subconscious mind for answers to key questions in your life. * How to see and shape the future. * How to find missing objects. * How to attain contentment. * How to uncover the hidden genius that exists in every mind to discover abilities you never thought you had.
A Vietnam veteran and trained killer, Vincent Majestyk finds peace as a farmer, growing melons, until the Mob, seeing him as an easy mark, tries to make him a victim in an extortion plot.
THE HEALING POWER OF POSITIVE ENERGY: Live Workshop Recorded in Burbank, California (May 2004) 3 CD Set You possess an innate intuitive intelligence so powerful that it can tell you how to heal and prevent illness. Judith Orloff, MD, a pioneer in the new field of Energy Psychiatry, shows how to reclaim this intelligence. She passionately believes that the future of medicine lies in using intuition to access your body's subtle energies for greater wellness. This sacred energy is with you at birth, throughout life, and continues after death - a marker of your soul's journey. You can learn to draw upon it.
